https://www.crn.com/news/channel-programs/crn-exclusive-hp-to-launch-new-organizational-structure-appoint-first-ever-chief-commercial-officer
Looks like more WFR?
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"HP’s new commercial organization will see the company shifting from a three-region organizational structure to a set of 10 geographic markets, which will each be led by a newly appointed managing director who will report to Schell. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based PC and printer giant currently splits its organization between the Americas region, the EMEA region and the Asia Pacific and Japan region."
The three-way Americas/EMEA/APJ top-level split with a layer of country headquarters has been out of date for decades.
If you are in supplies and specifically InkJet, get ready.
Per wikipedia, "back office" is
"The back office is all the resources of the company that are devoted to actually producing a product or service and all the other labor that isn't seen by customers, such as administration or logistics"
So that means pretty much everyone other than Executive and sales is at risk.
Accounting/Ar/ap/billing/payroll/etc
The article mentioned "the cuts will involve back-office positions"............WTF are "back-office positions"?